White House Executive Order on Open Data and helium legislation

[Shannon Dosemagen]

Two news bits I wanted to share with you all.

1. Some might be interested in this-- Executive Order on Open Data coming from the White House today.

From the Sunlight Foundation blog:

This Executive Order and the new policies that accompany it cover a lot of ground, building public reporting systems, adding new goals, creating new avenues for public participation, and laying out new principles for openness, much of which can be found in Sunlight's extensive Open Data Policy Guidelines, and the work of our friends and allies.

2. An NPR piece I heard yesterday morning on "legislation to prevent global helium shortage from worsening": http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/05/08/181996604/congress-considers-how-to-deflate-nations-helium-reserve?ft=1&f=1001

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@sdosemagen